
Jesse Norman - Uses and abuses of the Ancient Constitution
Lectures in Intellectual History
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The Supreme Court's Judgment in Miller Versus the Prime Minister
The seventeenth century was a perid of turmoil over the relationship between the stuart kings and parliament. That political controversy did not deter the court from holding, in the case of proclamations 16 11, that an attempt to alter the law of the land by the use of the crown's prerogative powers was unlawful. Without parliament, the king has no prerogative but that which thelaw of the lamb allows him. In the first example, what warrant did resmog have for his assertions about the constitution? The answer is none. He had no warrant at all for this. Vew prime ministers regularly stepped down without an immediate derelection,. only it's a rot
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